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Cabin Fever you want to see the research results go on line and search its there. Fact is in the west the coyote was probably the most persecuted animal ever poison baits set guns you name it they used it for decades to kill coyotes. Guess what it didn't work. What is interesting in that article is the chicago Quiznos incident. By the time they got a wildlife specialist on scene the coyote had been in the store several hours. It just came in and took a nap near the coolers it never ate anything. Now knowing the dietary habits of coyotes you have to ask yourself: Do I really want to eat food rejected by a coyote?

I find that making a mock scrape a week or two before the rut(estrous) works out well. And once the does are in heat a little doe in estrous pee added can make the bucks nuts.

That's the point use the preorbital overhead and the bucks will go apesheit over the fact there is an invader in his space

JUNK!!! Too much blow by with powerbelts.

I use mock scrapes with good success. Most guys i know over do it when spraying stuff in a mock scrape. And remember you need an overhanging branch for the preorbital scent. I've seen plenty of guys make scrapes without having an overhanging branch dead giveaway something ain't kosher to the deer.

It is an antiseptic. It also is an oxydizer. H2O2 its kept in opaque brown bottles so sunlight can't reach it. Exposure to sunlight and organic material causes it to breakdown giving up one of its oxygen atoms and becoming H2O

No if I get to the spot I shot him/her and can't find blood I mist along the trail to find it then do the same until I find the next spot. When its wet I can't tell the difference between the red of the leaves and blood as both look the same color and are wet. In dry conditions blood looks wet leaves don't. but many a time i've had to crawl on my hands and knees to track deer. I don't have to crawl through the woods with the peroxide anymore.

I am to the red spectrum. Oh I see red but can't differentiate shades of red. This can make tracking a real pain at times. If there's blood splashed everywhere I can find it. But if the grounds wet or there are only small droplets I have problems. But I got a cure hydrogen peroxide in and opaque spray bottle. It only foams on blood. Now I kust look for the bubbly spots when I am having problems finding blood. You don't have to be color blind to do this as sometimes everyone has trouble spotting blood and its a dern sight cheaper and more reliable than them fancy flashlights.

The arbors with mine are some type of plastic once attached to the boresighter and inserted into the barrel you turn it until it is tight to the barrel. then loosen the protruding portion and turn it until its level the lock it down

I don't have a laser cartridge but one that goes in the end of the barrel with the proper arbor. It has a level on it so you always know you have it placed level with horizontal crosshair.

Love my boresighter. Gets me on paper when using new gun/scope. But it has another definite advantage. After getting the gun zeroed on paper reinstall the boresighter. And check where the crosshairs are in relation to the laser dot. Now if you go on an out of state adventure or just drop the gun you can use the boresighter to check that the scope hasn't moved.

Some people are saying that to use an airgun for hunting it has to be a 22cal 600 fps. WRONG!!!! Pg 19 airguns must be 17 cal or larger with 600fps min. A 177 airgun fires a pellet that is .007 larger than 17 cal so is a legal airgun for hunting.

Sandbags you get at hardware store for weight in pickup work good.

I have no problem getting decent groups at 500yds from a bench with my 7mm Rem mag. But would I shoot a deer at that range offhand? NO WAY!!! Keep my hunting shots to 200 or less.

I buy the SuperSportsman license and DMPs Get two tags good archery/muzzleload season one tag either sex one antlerless. Regular season tag good for buck only during reg season good for either sex late archery.muzzleload season. DMPs good from opening of early bow(southern tier) to end of muzzleload season. I wish they'd let us use the Reg season tag during early bow. Last year I spent a week of vacation twiddling my thumbs because all I had left the week before Reg season was my Reg season tag.

Screw in steps are all well and good; IF you're on your own property. Or with landowners permission. As they will destroy valuable timber. Most property owners don't care if you put them in a Maple tree but put them in say a cherry tree now you're in trouble as its a high dollar tree. And forget using them on State Lands strictly verboten.

A law making use of a safety system mandatory like the seatbelt laws????? NO FRICKIN WAY!!!!!! I don't believe in seatbelt laws (except in the case of small children) or motorcycle helmet laws. Its not the governments place to dictate the use of either. The choice should be left to the individual I'm sick and tired of government intruding into the lives of people; people that government is supposed to serve. But we've become a nation of sheep! Are we headed into an Orwellian utopia allowing government to tells us what to do, what to eat, where to work, and what to think?

Damn right 12ft can be a long way down. Consider this every year several hundred people slip and fall to their death in the bathtub. Slip on mud in the woods and whack your skull on a rock same thing. Statistically you are more likely to die in a car wreck going to your hunting area than from a fall from your stand. OK so one in a thousand is gonna fall out of their stand. Ask yourself this question: Do I know who that ONE is?

Spring turkey season through to fall.

Nice looking Fisher! Dump the ugly guy!!!!!

As to what to do with misfired rounds collect them and take them to the next PETA picnic in your area and throw them in the BBQ and RUN!!!!!

You think coyotes are a problem(some places they are). Hope we don't have a feral pig explosion (its coming). Feral hogs are worse on livestock and game animals than wolves not to mention crop damage. I had a farm I got permission to trap and one day the owner was showing me around his cornfields and woodlots. He told me don't trap coyotes they keep the coons out of the dent corn. Well, we're walking the farmroads and I spot a couple piles of coyote $hit. What are they full of? CORN! We walked some more and found more of the same. He said trap em and the coons; fox will also feast on corn

Livestock predation is a whole different ballgame with different rules. In that case you can shoot/trap and bury the offending animals anytime of year.

I never go up or down without my harness attached to the tree. Last fall my cousin was moving a stand with no safety system and he broke three vertebrae. Last year a friend found a great spot and he always uses a safety harness. what he failed to notice was the tree trunk was covered in poison ivy. He couldn't pull his bow for about ten days.

The area I hunt there are lots of yotes around. Last year on stand during bow season I saw an avg of fifteen deer a day about what I normally see. The people in town seem to think they're killing off the deer and turkeys. But on the properties I hunt the deer population seems stable while the turkey population is exploding. One winter flock looks to number a hundred or more birds now. I trap through most of November on these properties and I avg 12-16 coyotes a year. What I find interesting is years ago when the farmers were bailing hay it was common to see red or grey fox trailing the bailer catching mice. Now I see coyotes doing the same. And in years with high grasshopper populations they're out in the fields gobbling them up like candy just like the fox and turkey do. I won't just kill a coyote and leave it because its flat out wrong not to mention illegal. Read your hunting manual on "Wanton waste". If you want to hunt coyotes fine but contact your local CO he can either put you in touch with a trappers assoc or tell you where and when they hold their fur auctions. If you saw a $20 bill lying on the ground you wouldn't just walk past it would you? Good pelts could bring you that much. If you cross paths with one during the gun season for deer take a head shot they don't use that part in the fur industry. A 12ga or lg cal rifle slug through the shoulders destroys any value the pelt might have had. My farming friends love the coyotes they've decimated the feral cats that destroy equipment with their clawing of tractor seats etc and spraying in their barns. And I rather catch salable fur than feral cats anyday. Although the few I do catch make great coyote bait.